Jane Austen Links

Links to literature mentioned in
Jane Austen's novels and film adaptations.

• Jane Austen's Juvenilia page
  includes e-texts of Vol. I and II and some letters. 

• Austen and Authenticity 


• Health and Wealth and Miss Jane Austen 


• Jane Austen's Clergymen 


• Tuesdays in Jane Austen's novels 


• Jane Austen etc. 
  The Completions, Continuations and Adaptations of Her Novels 


• Ms. Austen & Co.
  Litrix reading room includes e-texts of all JA's novels and other 19th century works by Hardy, the Brontës, etc. 


• How Jane Austen's characters talk 


• Opinions of Jane Austen
  Quotes from many other authors including Sir Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, and the infamous statements by Mark Twain. There are also quotes from her family members. 


• Jane Austen and the Novel of Social Comedy
  by William James Dawson
  Chapter IV of the book Makers of English Fiction


• Calendars behind Jane Austen's novels 


• Criticism and biographies of Jane Austen 


• Jane Austen: The Movie 


• Jane Austen E-texts, etc.
  This site includes online books about Jane Austen 


• Great Books Index--Jane Austen
  Links to many different e-text versions of Austen's work.


• Jane Austen and Laurence Sterne


• Internet Public Library's Online LIterary Criticism--Jane Austen


• Excerpt (Ch. 1) of Jane Austen: A Life
  by Claire Tomalin 

Specific Plays

Midsummer Night's Dream Annotated hypertext version  Midsummer Night's Dream resource page  A collection of links for reading and understanding the play.

King Lear Enjoying King Lear King Lear & A Thousand Acres A comparison of the two stories

Hamlet Hamlet Navigator A hypertext study guide to Hamlet including scene summaries, character reviews, text search.  Hamlet Online  Everything Hamlet

• Shakespeare search engine 


• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare 


• Titles from Shakespeare 
  Search to find where titles of other literature have made reference to Shakespeare. 


• Shakespeare Resource Centre 


• Drama Teachers' Resource Page 


• Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare
  A complete recounting in prose of all Shakespeare's works. 


• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet 


• Shakespeare Site Map
  Includes study guides, criticism on the plays, biographical information, discussion of "the authorship question" and more! 


• The Elizabethan Review
  Journal of the English Renaissance 


• The Shakespeare Classroom 

• Jane Austen Scrapbook 


• Literary Locales
  Links to many sites with pictures of important locations in literary history, including three links for Jane Austen. 


• Blaise Castle
  John Thorpe wants to take Catherine there in Northanger Abbey


• Links to places literary 


• Literary Landscapes 


• The Jane Austen Centre in Bath 


• Romantic Chronology 


• English History 1660-1800 


• English Culture 1660-1830 


• Regency Trivia & timeline 

• Jane Austen Greeting Cards
• A Jane Austen's birthday e-card to send
• Shakespeare sonnet greeting cards

• Paper dolls
  Includes most of Jane Austen's heroines and others from literature such as Jane Eyre 
• Pride and Prejudice Paper Dolls
• Literary Quiz 
  (Pemberlians guaranteed to get at least one right!) 
• Book-a-minute classics
  The collected works of Jane Austen 
• Persuasion Cryptograms 
• Acrostic on Mrs. Elton's name 
• Literary Trivia Puzzles
• First Lines: literary quizzes
• Literary Cryptograms
  Solve these famous quotes from literature. 
• Incomptech
  British Author Series
  Amusing biographies of everyone from Shakespeare to Austen 
• Literature Selectors
  Various amusing quizzes that let you see which character you would be in various literature, including Austen.

Links related to group reads,
film and television adaptations
and perennial Pemberley favourites

Articles related to the adaptations we love

• Jane Austen: The Movie, Or Why We Watch Great Books


• The Revival of Jane Austen


• Austen-mania
  Salon.com article on why Jane is becoming the favourite novelist of filmdom


• Emma, the Movies, and First Year Literature Classes
• Literature & Film
  Not specifically about Jane Austen, but rather about the theme of adapting literature to film

Articles related to The Gentleman's Daughter group read,
starting October 19, 2003

• In Pursuit of Pleasure
  Online booklet on 18th Century Society by Amanda Vickery


• Women, Economic Instability, and Poverty in London During the 19th Century


• British History Online


• Domestic Life in 19th Century England
  Links to plays from the 19th c. that focus on these topics.

Articles related to some of our other favourite Pemberley reads

• Lord Peter Pages
• Dorothy L. Sayers: The Lord Peter Wimsey Stories
  Includes a chronology of the books in which he appears.
• Dorothy L. Sayers A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection Home Page
• Annotations for Gaudy Night
• Harry Potter Explained
  A comparative mythologist looks into the popularity of this series. 

• The Romantics
  Useful reference material (These links formerly made up the bottom part of this table) 


• Coquette Net
  This site is devoted to the 18th century novel and novelists. Search in 'Female Pens' for chronologies of writers like Fanny Burney. 


• Evelina
  by Fanny Burney 


• Camilla
  by Fanny Burney 


• 19th C. British Literature Resources


• Chawton House Library Novels Online
  A collection of late 18th and early 19th century novels by women authors.


• The English Novel
  Links to information pages for many authors including Jane Austen, Henry Fielding, Fanny Burney the Brontës, Thomas Hardy and more. 


• 18th Century E-Texts
  Many complete works, listed alphabetically
  by author 


• 19th Century British and Irish Authors 
  Slow-loading but very comprehensive site. 


• The Lord Byron Page


• Restoration and 18th C Literature Index


• Poem Hunter
  Searchable archive of classic poetry


• Penguin Reading Guides and Notes on literature